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Vinny Del Negro sells Highland Park home for $1.2 million

Jim Thome cuts price on Hinsdale home by 8 percent; rocker David Draiman's former Wicker Park home listed

February 14, 2013|By Bob Goldsborough | Special to the Chicago Tribune

Los Angeles Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro, who left the Bulls in 2010, sold his four-bedroom home in southwest Highland Park for $1.2 million last month. (Mark L. Baer-USA TODAY Sports, Mark L. Baer-USA TODAY Sports)

Former Chicago Bulls coach Vinny Del Negro, now coach of the Los Angeles Clippers, sold his four-bedroom, contemporary-style home in southwest Highland Park last month for $1.2 million, the same price he had paid for it about 4 1/2 years earlier.

Del Negro, who left the Bulls in 2010, sold the home in a private transaction to a limited liability company, which then listed it for $1.05 million. On Jan. 24, the asking price was cut to $999,000.

The limited liability company manager declined to comment on the reduced price. Listing agent Margie Brooks of Baird & Warner also declined comment.

Features in the house, which is in a maintenance-free development, include four baths, walls of glass, a kitchen with upscale appliances, an elevator, hardwood floors, a finished basement and, off the master bedroom, a large outdoor space with a fire pit.

Thome cuts price 8%

Former White Sox player Jim Thome has reduced the asking price on his six-bedroom, stone-and-brick mansion in Hinsdale to $3.5 million from $3.8 million. The 8 percent price cut Feb. 6 is the Thomes' first in the more than nine months the house has been on the market.

In March, Thome, 42, a free agent, for a seven-bedroom mansion in Burr Ridge. In April, he and his wife listed the Hinsdale home.

Former home of rocker listed

The three-bedroom, contemporary-style Wicker Park neighborhood home that rocker David Draiman of the band Disturbed owned from 2005 until 2009 has been listed for $645,000.

The home's owners listed it in December for $675,000 and cut its asking price Feb. 6. Among the features are a living room with 20-foot ceilings, skylights, a custom fireplace, and a master suite with a rain shower, a Japanese soaking tub and a 500-square-foot private deck, with a hot tub, crafted from Brazilian ipe wood.

Built in 1900, the house also has 2 1/2 baths, a two-car garage and a kitchen with Viking, Sub-Zero and Bosch appliances.

Draiman, 39, paid $849,000 in 2005 for the 2,576-square-foot house and then renovated it. He sold it in 2009 for $695,000.

"It was definitely a neat renovation," said listing agent Emily Sachs Wong of Koenig & Strey. "He really made the house into an interesting, contemporary home. It's not a cookie-cutter house."